LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Dragon Class Yacht Miranda
YACHT AGROUND At 1.40 p.m. on 2ist May, 1966, a yacht was reported in difficulties one mile east of Llanbedrog Point and about three miles south west of the station. The IRB was launched at 1.45 in a strong south westerly wind and a rough...
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
The Ecuadorian Motor Vessel Bonita
Twenty-nine rescued A MAYDAY RELAY message from the Danish motor vessel Charlottenburg was heard by St Peter Port Signal Station at 1323 on Sunday December 13, 1981.
Charlottenburg was going to the assistance of Bonita, an...
The Rowing Fishing Boat Barbara
At about 3.30 P.M. on the 18th October information came that a fishing boat was in distress to the north-east of Llandudno Bay. A strong westerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
The motor life-boat Thomas and Annie...
The Viking O., of Dublin
JUNE 10TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.
DUBLIN. At 9.15 in the morning the lifeboat’s assistant motor-mechanic reported a yacht up against the east pier. The wind was blowing very strongly from the northwest, and the sea was rough....
The Faroese Motor Vessel Mjoanes
MARCH 8TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.37 in the morning, the coastguard telephoned that a rocket had been fired by a vessel ashore on the west side of Cairnbulg Beacon. She was the Faroese motor vessel Mjoanes,...
Prince Edward at the Helm:
Prince Edward at the helm: Prince Edward paid a private visit to Hunstanton lifeboat station on January 7, while on holiday at Sandringham. The Prince, who is training to be an officer in the Royal Marines, took the helm of the station's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The British Cargo Ship Kohima
Penlee, Cornwall - At 10 p.m. on 2 ist January, 1967, information was received that help would be needed to take a sick man off the British cargo ship Kohima which was four miles south of Penzance. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched...
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
THE Marchioness of Carisbrooke, who is already associated with the Life-boat Service as President of the Scarborough Branch, has very kindly accepted an invitation from the Committee of Man- agement to become President of the Ladies'...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Services of the World: Sweden
By Captain STENISBERG, Secretary of the Svenska Sillskapet For Kaidning Af Skeppsbrutne.
[This article, on the Swedish organiza- tion or rescuing life from shipwreck, which Captain Isberg has very kindly written for THE...
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